Any drive up 101 in the bay area would tell you that the economy here evaporated like the water in the salt marshes out in the bay. The mass exodous of people OUT of the bay area since the crash hasn't helped things at all either, since the companies they are retreating from either closed shop, outsourced in some manner (domestic or foriegn) or they've made the coders become coder/tech writer/IT persons/janitors all rolled into one.
I hate to say it, but IT people seem like more of a perk to companies so the coders don't have to take on that roll. Unfortunatly having 20 coders arguing over the network setup usually results in a half-assed network that we IT guys end up cleaning up in the end when the company caves in and decides to make a budget for IT again.
After working for PHB's for 8 years, me and my IT buds are burnt out. Working for people you KNOW are dumber than you eventually might bring you to this conclusion..
If I know i'm smarter than this jackass who can't copy and paste something into his powerpoint presentation, then why is HE the boss, and why am I his lackey?
So my advice to you is don't worry about the job market right now in IT. Most companies are outsoucing IT to save money, so you could go down, file a ficticous business name for 40 bucks and be in business. Be your own telemarketer, call up the CFO's of companies in your area and ask them if they would like to "outsource" IT. PHB's love that buzzword "Outsource"
Plug in the back of your neck = matrix Programming yourself = Nano's from AO MIB's and Gmen in the black mesa desert = half life.
I found the story interesting mainly because of the locations. Small details like eating el torito burrito's along the 101, living here in the bay area I know all these spots, it almost makes the story more realistic to me in that sense.
The really interesting thing is seeing how modern writers take what they see now, and apply that to their story.
The whole, healing aids virus thing was a trip, probably the most original thing in the story. Other than that though, the story is just silicon valley facts mixed in with hollywood/gaming fiction.
Since this is the funny thread. My SOT (Slightly off topic) comment will be banana related... I sing this all the time at karaoke. Imagine that. It will in the very least put a smile on your face.
There's a fruit store on our street It's run by a Greek. And he keeps good things to eat But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers "no". He just "yes"es you to death, And as he takes your dough, he tells you...
"Yes! We have no bananas We have no bananas today!! We have string beans and onions, cabBAges and scallions And all kinds of fruit and say We have an old fashioned toMAHto A Long Island poTAHto, but
Yes! We have no bananas We have no bananas today!"
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today, "Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away." When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet. Someone asked for "sparrow grass" and then the whole quartet All answered:
"Yes, we have no bananas We have-a no bananas today. Just try those coconuts Those wall-nuts and doughnuts There ain't many nuts like they. We'll sell you two kinds of red herring, Dark brown, and ball-bearing. But yes, we have no bananas We have no bananas today."
Yah mythtv is close.. But where are the fricken ISO images???
Here, lemme hit any potential PVR software author what me, and millions of other people who don't ever want to see a shell prompt on their PVR want.
1. Make an ISO Nobody wants to download this from here, that from there, tar xfzv make compile and pray you have all the correct dependancies. I just want to download a ISO image, burn it, boot it and it works.
2. Slick interface Myth's interface is a good start but could be better. I would suggest reading the OSX interface guidlines at apple, there's a ton of usefull info on how to make an intuative gui there.
3. Bells and whistles Since %99 of the world is windows (myself included) I want to be able to configure a samba share so I can access what I record on another PC. Same goes for netatalk and the apples.
Also add in support for things like alphanumeric LCD's in case someone wants to add a LCD to the front of this thing.
Point i'm trying to make though is the majority of people that want to use this won't have the time or patience to do a bunch of side tasks to complete their main task, which is building a PVR.
How the fuck could my comment be modded as flamebait/troll/offtopic???
Moderators must have the attention spam of a hamster because everything I said was ontopic and the truth. Oh yeah I forgot, this is slashdot where moderation can warp the comments filled with truth into oblivion and knee jerk moderations without reading things in context rule the day.
Go to hell whoever modded me down. I hope the metamoderators will take note of this.
Dude, yeah muslims are havin a hard time here, no doubt about it, but you can't hold all of us responsible for the actions of a few idiots..
America is a melting pot, sometimes it gets good people, sometimes bad people come in to the country, and sometimes they're just born here. Yet we allow them all to live and work here why?
Because as a whole, the US is the most tolerant country towards cultural differences. The only thing we don't tolerate is anything that is a human rights violation, then we step in.
Back in the 50's southern US states had a lot of clanspeople that were running around burning crosses and lynching african americans. Back then the KKK had lawers, doctors, and politicians in its ranks, but after 50 years of stamping them out, the KKK has been reduced to the white trailer park trash you see on jerry springer today.
See, we americans hate seeing people get picked on. We put the bullies in their places.
Anyways, don't hate the whole for a few bad apples. In case you're wondering, my family immigrated here in 1914 from sicily, and yes the newcomers always get picked on. My father and uncles were called dago wops by people back in the 50's, but that sort of public degredation no longer happens here without a lawsuit.
At the bottom of my sig, you'll see the mag I donate my webmastering skills too. We're a local zine for the silicon valley music scene.
Before ppl ask "SV has a music scene?" remember, bands like green day come out of here. Our music scene is totally different than that of L.A.'s a.k.a. Hollywood. I can't describe it, because I see everything as data, but I can tell you what the musicians are fearing.
So yesterday, i'm riding around delivering the latest issue of Zero with one of our big bosses. Boss delivering zines you ask? It's hard times, everyone is pulling double effort.
Anyways, this cat is a musician, and.5 owner of the zine. When we went to the different bay area wherehouse music stores today, we found out some alarming news.
All Wherehouse music stores around our area are shutting down... We have noticed a trend too, less people in other music stores.
So who's to blame? Napster? The economy? Pirates?
Well, my partner started asking questions about the technology. He's what I would call a reforming luddite (yeah strong words but he'd agree with me) "Isn't there some way they could make a CD so it's uncopyable?" he asked. I explained to him as long as there was some sort of digital, to a speaker coil coversion, the RIAA will never be able to stamp out piracy.
"Well who the fuck would want to download a shitty copy of a song then!" he chirped.
"The same fucks that would bring a camera into AOTC's, compress it to mpeg and share it over kazaa" I replied.
Stumped, he went back to his first question. After repeating that there had to be some way of doing it 3 times I answered..
"Yeah, if they could convince everyone to replace their ears with DRM enabled digital implants, then yeah the RIAA has a chance"
Well, he got the point after that. So he moved onto "How do you stamp out P2P?"
I put it into another analogy for him. Napster with it's central peer topology is much like a football team with 1 quarterback. You sack the quarterback.. You sack the network.
"So the RIAA can just sack kazaa right?"
"No, Kazaa would be the equivelent of every player on the team being both QB and reciever"
See, our zine stays alive by record lables having the money to buy adspace from us. If the record lables are losing money from P2P it affects us because they've yet to evolve to the net.
"What should they do?"
Personally, I think the record lables should ditch CD production altogether now. They should make songs freely downloadable. Fuck it, cut their losses.
But rather than look at it like a loss, the record industry should take a Las Vegas approach to it. Just use the music as a "comp" to milk money out of people in other ways.
For instance, that $50 dollar green day ticket, fuck it, if people won't buy the albums anymore, double it. I think people wouldn't care if they had to pay more for live performances. I'm biased because I do get in for free, and don't have any money to pay for tickets anyways. I'm 30 years old in feburary and am perfectly content to staying at home.
The market is really for 14-25 year olds. Those are the people with expendable cash. They live at home, don't have a mortgage, and can afford $100 bucks to see a live performance. With the rate of inflation over the last 10 years, $100 doesn't really seem like a lot to me to see a big headliner band if I had no financial obligations.
I'm the oldest of 6, my youngest siblings are more at home in the computer enviroment than I ever was at their age. The RIAA doesn't realize this yet, but their biggest age group has a huge understanding of internet distribution, and they will never be able to beat it. That's just an unfortunate fact about it.
So to recap the RIAA should...
Cut back CD production, Raise the price of live performances Focus on promotion more than CD distribution.
This is america, and my first ammendmant right gives me, or the guy you're calling insensitive the right to say things like.
Fuck allah. On that same note Fuck jesus. Oh and lets not forget Fuck bhudda
Go ahead and use your first ammendment right to tell me to fuck off.
The real problem I have with all religions is all of them think they're right, and the other religions are wrong. It's an individuals right to choose what he/she believes in, and not up to the.gov.
It's what makes the US great, we seperated church and state.
Two-thirds of any unclaimed settlements, up to $1.1 billion, will be given to California's neediest public schools
Awesome news because that daywalking vampire.gov Gray Davis has just announced we're in a 85 billion dollar deficit. Schools are getting shut down this year as a part of budget cuts.
WTF happened to all that taxes you took when I had a.com salary you cocksucker davis? You 'aint foolin me. Prolly spent it on hookers and booze you twit.
Anyways, considering 1.1 billion is a hefty percentage of the 85 billion dollar deficit across the board, whatever schools are left will not have to worry about their computer systems. Hopefully the Department of Education will take this as an oppertunity to covert everything over to the internet and give free dialup access to students. On top of that covert all schoolbooks to HTML. I don't think thats impossible with 1.1 billion going towards equipment.
Part of the curriculum should teach kids how to turn that pentium 166 into an internet appliance for schoolwork. Plenty of them are ending up in landfills out here in CA. No joke. Linux is still too shitty for a desktop, so maybe adopt openBeOS as the schools primary platform.
Of course, it'll never happen. More than likely the education board will line their own paychecks before investing it into a working technological breakthrough in education.
At the bottom of my sig, you'll see the mag I donate my webmastering skills too. We're a local zine for the silicon valley music scene.
Before ppl ask "SV has a music scene?" remember, bands like green day come out of here. Our music scene is totally different than that of L.A.'s a.k.a. Hollywood. I can't describe it, because I see everything as data, but I can tell you what the musicians are fearing.
So today, i'm riding around delivering the latest issue of Zero with one of our big bosses. Boss delivering zines you ask? It's hard times, everyone is pulling double effort.
Anyways, this cat is a musician, and.5 owner of the zine. When we went to the different bay area wherehouse music stores today, we found out some alarming news.
All Wherehouse music stores around our area are shutting down... We have noticed a trend too, less people in other music stores.
So who's to blame? Napster? The economy? Pirates?
Well, my partner started asking questions about the technology. He's what I would call a reforming luddite (yeah strong words but he'd agree with me) "Isn't there some way they could make a CD so it's uncopyable?" he asked. I explained to him as long as there was some sort of digital, to a speaker coil coversion, the RIAA will never be able to stamp out piracy.
"Well who the fuck would want to download a shitty copy of a song then!" he chirped.
"The same fucks that would bring a camera into AOTC's, compress it to mpeg and share it over kazaa" I replied.
Stumped, he went back to his first question. After repeating that there had to be some way of doing it 3 times I answered..
"Yeah, if they could convince everyone to replace their ears with DRM enabled digital implants, then yeah the RIAA has a chance"
Well, he got the point after that. So he moved onto "How do you stamp out P2P?"
I put it into another analogy for him. Napster with it's central peer topology is much like a football team with 1 quarterback. You sack the quarterback.. You sack the network.
"So the RIAA can just sack kazaa right?"
"No, Kazaa would be the equivelent of every player on the team being both QB and reciever"
See, our zine stays alive by record lables having the money to buy adspace from us. If the record lables are losing money from P2P it affects us because they've yet to evolve to the net.
"What should they do?"
Personally, I think the record lables should ditch CD production altogether now. They should make songs freely downloadable. Fuck it, cut their losses.
But rather than look at it like a loss, the record industry should take a Las Vegas approach to it. Just use the music as a "comp" to milk money out of people in other ways.
For instance, that $50 dollar green day ticket, fuck it, if people won't buy the albums anymore, double it. I think people wouldn't care if they had to pay more for live performances. I'm biased because I do get in for free, and don't have any money to pay for tickets anyways. I'm 30 years old in feburary and am perfectly content to staying at home.
The market is really for 14-25 year olds. Those are the people with expendable cash. They live at home, don't have a mortgage, and can afford $100 bucks to see a live performance. With the rate of inflation over the last 10 years, $100 doesn't really seem like a lot to me to see a big headliner band if I had no financial obligations.
I'm the oldest of 6, my youngest siblings are more at home in the computer enviroment than I ever was at their age. The RIAA doesn't realize this yet, but their biggest age group has a huge understanding of internet distribution, and they will never be able to beat it. That's just an unfortunate fact about it.
So to recap the RIAA should...
Cut back CD production, Raise the price of live performances Focus on promotion more than CD distribution.
Well, it's 3:30, and after a night of bouncing 300lb pac islanders from my karaoke bar, I need some sleep. Slash you in the morning and I hope your friday was as fun as mine.
This is a windows only issue, but why is it that the DV manufacturers decided in their infinite wisdom to make it so you could only capture in one format (DV)?
I used to love using my analog BT878 card to do software mpeg compression while I captured. It saved me a ton of disk space and let me capture many different things.
The recomended disk space for 2 hours of DV is 30 gigs. Since I had no other option I just went out and bought an 80 gig drive.
So I guess my question to the 1394b creators is, will I be able to software compress a DV stream as I capture it? Or will I have to use oodles of disk space like I do now.
You just repeated everything I said, except put it more elequently.
BTW did you watch dateline NBC last night? Did you see all those middle class families in Ohio standing in line for bread? Thank you GWB for letting MORE h1b's and green cards into the country instead of hiring locally. I hope america wakes up and impeaches his ass.
It's no longer the homeless and degenerates standing in line for a handout, it's everybody.
We would burn about the same amount of oil, and increase our use of coal.
Yes but rather than having millions of unregulated carbon monoxide spewing internal combustion engines on the road, we would have several power plants, goverment regulated, with all the best waste treatment technology availiable.
Ever seen a ghetto ass hoopdy with 10 kids spewin smoke goin down the highway? If all cars were electric the only thing spewin smoke would be the power plants, and it would be cleaner than what came out of the hoopdy's tailpipe.
Man, I gotta defend my post before I lose more karma:P
There's another post in this thread, the guy talks about how in texas the majority of money is made on oil import/export. I was going to say this, but since a texan beat me to it, give credit where credit is due.
Also to note, you are completely disregarding the fact that GWB knocked down the requirements for electric vehicles. Clinton MANDATED that the auto companies produce cars at least as good as the EV1, Bush lowered the standard to a golf cart. That was bush that did that.
Bush & Cheney both sold off their stocks (at a loss at the time), to limit their conflict of interest with the oil companies.
What about their uncles? Their dads? Friends? Other family members? I suppose they sold their stock too. Just because they sold off their stock doesn't mean they still wouldn't have conflicting personal interests.
It isn't GWB holding up electric cars in some oil conspiracy, it's the population as a whole - who collectively don't seem all that interested in alternative fuel vehicles or higher fuel usage vehicles.
Then why was there a waiting list for the EV1 when it first came out? I think all people are interested in is performance. I.e. will it go as fast as gas?
Then there's the money for whatever new infrastructure is required by alternative energy...
Fry's electronics in Sunnyvale CA has special parking spots for cars that use the EV1's charger plugs. Park your car, charge it up for free while you shop.
GWB is a texan. Texas oil is a huge part of their economy. Texas oil makes cars go vroom, keeps power plants running, and heats people's houses on the east coast.
What would happen if all the major automakers decided tomorrow to start building electrics? GWB's texan constituants would have a cow. They would be trying to pass laws to outlaw them.
When it was clinton/gore presidency, everything was dumped into technology, the GM EV1 is a classic example of the innovations that occured under a goverment that supported research that would cut out our dependance on foriegn (read Iraq) oil. IIRC Clinton even made it a law that all US automakers would have to have an electric vehicle on the market by 2008, and that these cars would have to be built along strict goverment guidelines.
When Bush became president, he wasted no time in modifying the law. Current guidlines are on par with a golf cart with turn signals and mirrors. Fords paltry offering into this market is just that, a golf cart with mirrors and turn signals.
Sorry I turned this comment into a political rant, conspiracy theories aside, the fact that GWB would kill the alternative fueled car laws and go after Iraq oil is all the proof I need.
At first I thought, "Phoneblogs, what a stupid idea because those phone keypads are a bitch to type on!" Then I thought, "What if they're using a speech to text engine?"
After reading through the site and finding out there is no voice to text, I verified my original thought, "Phoneblogs, what a stupid idea"
Maybe I shouldn't crap on it too much though, it's still in it's infancy and *could* be cool, But how many journalist do you know that crank out stories on a 12 key keyboard? Didn't think so.
Gee first comment, and it wont be off or on topic, just an interesting side note...
Anyways there's an interesting side note to the history of the ricochet modem. It's parent company developed and deployed a network over powerline technology for some LA based power company years ago. Too bad they went bankrupt otherwise i'd have a link.
Dude, i'm not trying to knock your logic, technically your points are good, but unless you ever heard the differences between an emulated atari (atari800win) and a real one you wouldn't know any better.
Let me break it into musical terms. Have you ever played around with rebirth? It's a emulator for the roland 808. Sure it has all the features of an 808, but if you ever got to play with a real 808, you can very easily distinguish the difference in sound.
I'm not a sound expert, but I know that there is a difference between sound coming out of the original machines circuitry and sound coming out of an emulation process. There's just never any chance of emulating the original hardwares sound without building it. Just ask any commodore sid chip junkie.
Commodore 128D stored at your mother's house she's telling you to take home lest she chuck it
That's a very true comment...
Since I've been married, my wife CONSTANTLY tried to throw out my old atari stuff. I had an awesome 800xl setup with happy810 drives, toggle switch to switch between O/S's, the works.
I would try to explain to her, this is what I started out on when I was like 10. Didn't matter, week later I would find it all packed up. I tried explaining that it was a collectors item, didn't matter, if I had it out on display she would haphazzardly pack it all up, sans a few cable that went into the trash. I tried explaining to her you just cannot get that vintage POKEY sound with an emulator. She'd point at my SBLive wavetable card.
We must have gone through the whole my unpacking / her packing things about 10 times before I gave up. Finally I just said fuck it, i'm going to make sure it went to a good home. I packed it all up, and went to the nullsoft offices in San Francisco, since I had read that those cats were once atarians.
They were pretty stoked on what I gave them, I think Brennen said he was going to use the drives to dig up some old code he did back in the day just so he could see how much it had changed. Justin made a crack about how he missed the simple flow of line numbering in atari basic, and Christophe ran off with a trackball.
Geek guys like this sort of stuff and geek girls don't. So ladies, my question is, what gives?
Shit i'm sicilian, go ahead and start with the mafia jokes. My family came on the boat back in 1914. Either way doesn't change the fact you're too stupid to recognize satire.
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You and me both have been out of work since 2k...
Any drive up 101 in the bay area would tell you that the economy here evaporated like the water in the salt marshes out in the bay. The mass exodous of people OUT of the bay area since the crash hasn't helped things at all either, since the companies they are retreating from either closed shop, outsourced in some manner (domestic or foriegn) or they've made the coders become coder/tech writer/IT persons/janitors all rolled into one.
I hate to say it, but IT people seem like more of a perk to companies so the coders don't have to take on that roll. Unfortunatly having 20 coders arguing over the network setup usually results in a half-assed network that we IT guys end up cleaning up in the end when the company caves in and decides to make a budget for IT again.
After working for PHB's for 8 years, me and my IT buds are burnt out. Working for people you KNOW are dumber than you eventually might bring you to this conclusion..
If I know i'm smarter than this jackass who can't copy and paste something into his powerpoint presentation, then why is HE the boss, and why am I his lackey?
So my advice to you is don't worry about the job market right now in IT. Most companies are outsoucing IT to save money, so you could go down, file a ficticous business name for 40 bucks and be in business. Be your own telemarketer, call up the CFO's of companies in your area and ask them if they would like to "outsource" IT. PHB's love that buzzword "Outsource"
Plug in the back of your neck = matrix
Programming yourself = Nano's from AO
MIB's and Gmen in the black mesa desert = half life.
I found the story interesting mainly because of the locations. Small details like eating el torito burrito's along the 101, living here in the bay area I know all these spots, it almost makes the story more realistic to me in that sense.
The really interesting thing is seeing how modern writers take what they see now, and apply that to their story.
The whole, healing aids virus thing was a trip, probably the most original thing in the story. Other than that though, the story is just silicon valley facts mixed in with hollywood/gaming fiction.
I liked it though.
Since this is the funny thread. My SOT (Slightly off topic) comment will be banana related... I sing this all the time at karaoke. Imagine that. It will in the very least put a smile on your face.
There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
He just "yes"es you to death,
And as he takes your dough, he tells you...
"Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!!
We have string beans and onions, cabBAges and scallions
And all kinds of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned toMAHto
A Long Island poTAHto, but
Yes! We have no bananas
We have no bananas today!"
Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
Someone asked for "sparrow grass"
and then the whole quartet
All answered:
"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
Just try those coconuts
Those wall-nuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they.
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
But yes, we have no bananas
We have no bananas today."
Yah mythtv is close.. But where are the fricken ISO images???
Here, lemme hit any potential PVR software author what me, and millions of other people who don't ever want to see a shell prompt on their PVR want.
1. Make an ISO
Nobody wants to download this from here, that from there, tar xfzv make compile and pray you have all the correct dependancies. I just want to download a ISO image, burn it, boot it and it works.
2. Slick interface
Myth's interface is a good start but could be better. I would suggest reading the OSX interface guidlines at apple, there's a ton of usefull info on how to make an intuative gui there.
3. Bells and whistles
Since %99 of the world is windows (myself included) I want to be able to configure a samba share so I can access what I record on another PC. Same goes for netatalk and the apples.
Also add in support for things like alphanumeric LCD's in case someone wants to add a LCD to the front of this thing.
Point i'm trying to make though is the majority of people that want to use this won't have the time or patience to do a bunch of side tasks to complete their main task, which is building a PVR.
http://trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm
I read direct TV dishes are a lot easier to build and go alot further.
How the fuck could my
comment be
modded as flamebait/troll/offtopic???
Moderators must have the attention spam of a hamster because everything I said
was ontopic and the truth. Oh yeah I forgot, this is slashdot where moderation
can warp the comments filled with truth into oblivion and knee jerk moderations
without reading things in context rule the day.
Go to hell whoever modded me down. I hope the metamoderators will take note of this.
Hehe, I wonder if the us.gov is gettin scared of the internet yet :) All this free unbounded communications :P
American arrogance???
Dude, yeah muslims are havin a hard time here, no doubt about it, but you can't hold all of us responsible for the actions of a few idiots..
America is a melting pot, sometimes it gets good people, sometimes bad people come in to the country, and sometimes they're just born here. Yet we allow them all to live and work here why?
Because as a whole, the US is the most tolerant country towards cultural differences. The only thing we don't tolerate is anything that is a human rights violation, then we step in.
Back in the 50's southern US states had a lot of clanspeople that were running around burning crosses and lynching african americans. Back then the KKK had lawers, doctors, and politicians in its ranks, but after 50 years of stamping them out, the KKK has been reduced to the white trailer park trash you see on jerry springer today.
See, we americans hate seeing people get picked on. We put the bullies in their places.
Anyways, don't hate the whole for a few bad apples. In case you're wondering, my family immigrated here in 1914 from sicily, and yes the newcomers always get picked on. My father and uncles were called dago wops by people back in the 50's, but that sort of public degredation no longer happens here without a lawsuit.
At the bottom of my sig, you'll see the mag I donate my webmastering skills too. We're a local zine for the silicon valley music scene.
.5 owner of the zine. When we went to the different bay area wherehouse music stores today, we found out some alarming news.
Before ppl ask "SV has a music scene?" remember, bands like green day come out of here. Our music scene is totally different than that of L.A.'s a.k.a. Hollywood. I can't describe it, because I see everything as data, but I can tell you what the musicians are fearing.
So yesterday, i'm riding around delivering the latest issue of Zero with one of our big bosses. Boss delivering zines you ask? It's hard times, everyone is pulling double effort.
Anyways, this cat is a musician, and
All Wherehouse music stores around our area are shutting down... We have noticed a trend too, less people in other music stores.
So who's to blame? Napster? The economy? Pirates?
Well, my partner started asking questions about the technology. He's what I would call a reforming luddite (yeah strong words but he'd agree with me) "Isn't there some way they could make a CD so it's uncopyable?" he asked. I explained to him as long as there was some sort of digital, to a speaker coil coversion, the RIAA will never be able to stamp out piracy.
"Well who the fuck would want to download a shitty copy of a song then!" he chirped.
"The same fucks that would bring a camera into AOTC's, compress it to mpeg and share it over kazaa" I replied.
Stumped, he went back to his first question. After repeating that there had to be some way of doing it 3 times I answered..
"Yeah, if they could convince everyone to replace their ears with DRM enabled digital implants, then yeah the RIAA has a chance"
Well, he got the point after that. So he moved onto "How do you stamp out P2P?"
I put it into another analogy for him. Napster with it's central peer topology is much like a football team with 1 quarterback. You sack the quarterback.. You sack the network.
"So the RIAA can just sack kazaa right?"
"No, Kazaa would be the equivelent of every player on the team being both QB and reciever"
See, our zine stays alive by record lables having the money to buy adspace from us. If the record lables are losing money from P2P it affects us because they've yet to evolve to the net.
"What should they do?"
Personally, I think the record lables should ditch CD production altogether now. They should make songs freely downloadable. Fuck it, cut their losses.
But rather than look at it like a loss, the record industry should take a Las Vegas approach to it. Just use the music as a "comp" to milk money out of people in other ways.
For instance, that $50 dollar green day ticket, fuck it, if people won't buy the albums anymore, double it. I think people wouldn't care if they had to pay more for live performances. I'm biased because I do get in for free, and don't have any money to pay for tickets anyways. I'm 30 years old in feburary and am perfectly content to staying at home.
The market is really for 14-25 year olds. Those are the people with expendable cash. They live at home, don't have a mortgage, and can afford $100 bucks to see a live performance. With the rate of inflation over the last 10 years, $100 doesn't really seem like a lot to me to see a big headliner band if I had no financial obligations.
I'm the oldest of 6, my youngest siblings are more at home in the computer enviroment than I ever was at their age. The RIAA doesn't realize this yet, but their biggest age group has a huge understanding of internet distribution, and they will never be able to beat it. That's just an unfortunate fact about it.
So to recap the RIAA should...
Cut back CD production,
Raise the price of live performances
Focus on promotion more than CD distribution.
This is america, and my first ammendmant right gives me, or the guy you're calling insensitive the right to say things like.
.gov.
Fuck allah.
On that same note
Fuck jesus.
Oh and lets not forget
Fuck bhudda
Go ahead and use your first ammendment right to tell me to fuck off.
The real problem I have with all religions is all of them think they're right, and the other religions are wrong. It's an individuals right to choose what he/she believes in, and not up to the
It's what makes the US great, we seperated church and state.
Two-thirds of any unclaimed settlements, up to $1.1 billion, will be given to California's neediest public schools
.gov Gray Davis has just announced we're in a 85 billion dollar deficit. Schools are getting shut down this year as a part of budget cuts.
.com salary you cocksucker davis? You 'aint foolin me. Prolly spent it on hookers and booze you twit.
Awesome news because that daywalking vampire
WTF happened to all that taxes you took when I had a
Anyways, considering 1.1 billion is a hefty percentage of the 85 billion dollar deficit across the board, whatever schools are left will not have to worry about their computer systems. Hopefully the Department of Education will take this as an oppertunity to covert everything over to the internet and give free dialup access to students. On top of that covert all schoolbooks to HTML. I don't think thats impossible with 1.1 billion going towards equipment.
Part of the curriculum should teach kids how to turn that pentium 166 into an internet appliance for schoolwork. Plenty of them are ending up in landfills out here in CA. No joke. Linux is still too shitty for a desktop, so maybe adopt openBeOS as the schools primary platform.
Of course, it'll never happen. More than likely the education board will line their own paychecks before investing it into a working technological breakthrough in education.
It's cool to dream though.
At the bottom of my sig, you'll see the mag I donate my webmastering skills too. We're a local zine for the silicon valley music scene.
.5 owner of the zine. When we went to the different bay area wherehouse music stores today, we found out some alarming news.
Before ppl ask "SV has a music scene?" remember, bands like green day come out of here. Our music scene is totally different than that of L.A.'s a.k.a. Hollywood. I can't describe it, because I see everything as data, but I can tell you what the musicians are fearing.
So today, i'm riding around delivering the latest issue of Zero with one of our big bosses. Boss delivering zines you ask? It's hard times, everyone is pulling double effort.
Anyways, this cat is a musician, and
All Wherehouse music stores around our area are shutting down... We have noticed a trend too, less people in other music stores.
So who's to blame? Napster? The economy? Pirates?
Well, my partner started asking questions about the technology. He's what I would call a reforming luddite (yeah strong words but he'd agree with me) "Isn't there some way they could make a CD so it's uncopyable?" he asked. I explained to him as long as there was some sort of digital, to a speaker coil coversion, the RIAA will never be able to stamp out piracy.
"Well who the fuck would want to download a shitty copy of a song then!" he chirped.
"The same fucks that would bring a camera into AOTC's, compress it to mpeg and share it over kazaa" I replied.
Stumped, he went back to his first question. After repeating that there had to be some way of doing it 3 times I answered..
"Yeah, if they could convince everyone to replace their ears with DRM enabled digital implants, then yeah the RIAA has a chance"
Well, he got the point after that. So he moved onto "How do you stamp out P2P?"
I put it into another analogy for him. Napster with it's central peer topology is much like a football team with 1 quarterback. You sack the quarterback.. You sack the network.
"So the RIAA can just sack kazaa right?"
"No, Kazaa would be the equivelent of every player on the team being both QB and reciever"
See, our zine stays alive by record lables having the money to buy adspace from us. If the record lables are losing money from P2P it affects us because they've yet to evolve to the net.
"What should they do?"
Personally, I think the record lables should ditch CD production altogether now. They should make songs freely downloadable. Fuck it, cut their losses.
But rather than look at it like a loss, the record industry should take a Las Vegas approach to it. Just use the music as a "comp" to milk money out of people in other ways.
For instance, that $50 dollar green day ticket, fuck it, if people won't buy the albums anymore, double it. I think people wouldn't care if they had to pay more for live performances. I'm biased because I do get in for free, and don't have any money to pay for tickets anyways. I'm 30 years old in feburary and am perfectly content to staying at home.
The market is really for 14-25 year olds. Those are the people with expendable cash. They live at home, don't have a mortgage, and can afford $100 bucks to see a live performance. With the rate of inflation over the last 10 years, $100 doesn't really seem like a lot to me to see a big headliner band if I had no financial obligations.
I'm the oldest of 6, my youngest siblings are more at home in the computer enviroment than I ever was at their age. The RIAA doesn't realize this yet, but their biggest age group has a huge understanding of internet distribution, and they will never be able to beat it. That's just an unfortunate fact about it.
So to recap the RIAA should...
Cut back CD production,
Raise the price of live performances
Focus on promotion more than CD distribution.
Well, it's 3:30, and after a night of bouncing 300lb pac islanders from my karaoke bar, I need some sleep. Slash you in the morning and I hope your friday was as fun as mine.
--Toq
This is a windows only issue, but why is it that the DV manufacturers decided in their infinite wisdom to make it so you could only capture in one format (DV)?
I used to love using my analog BT878 card to do software mpeg compression while I captured. It saved me a ton of disk space and let me capture many different things.
The recomended disk space for 2 hours of DV is 30 gigs. Since I had no other option I just went out and bought an 80 gig drive.
So I guess my question to the 1394b creators is, will I be able to software compress a DV stream as I capture it? Or will I have to use oodles of disk space like I do now.
You just repeated everything I said, except put it more elequently.
BTW did you watch dateline NBC last night? Did you see all those middle class families in Ohio standing in line for bread? Thank you GWB for letting MORE h1b's and green cards into the country instead of hiring locally. I hope america wakes up and impeaches his ass.
It's no longer the homeless and degenerates standing in line for a handout, it's everybody.
We would burn about the same amount of oil, and increase our use of coal.
Yes but rather than having millions of unregulated carbon monoxide spewing internal combustion engines on the road, we would have several power plants, goverment regulated, with all the best waste treatment technology availiable.
Ever seen a ghetto ass hoopdy with 10 kids spewin smoke goin down the highway? If all cars were electric the only thing spewin smoke would be the power plants, and it would be cleaner than what came out of the hoopdy's tailpipe.
Man, I gotta defend my post before I lose more karma :P
There's another post in this thread, the guy talks about how in texas the majority of money is made on oil import/export. I was going to say this, but since a texan beat me to it, give credit where credit is due.
Also to note, you are completely disregarding the fact that GWB knocked down the requirements for electric vehicles. Clinton MANDATED that the auto companies produce cars at least as good as the EV1, Bush lowered the standard to a golf cart. That was bush that did that.
Bush & Cheney both sold off their stocks (at a loss at the time), to limit their conflict of interest with the oil companies.
What about their uncles? Their dads? Friends? Other family members? I suppose they sold their stock too. Just because they sold off their stock doesn't mean they still wouldn't have conflicting personal interests.
It isn't GWB holding up electric cars in some oil conspiracy, it's the population as a whole - who collectively don't seem all that interested in alternative fuel vehicles or higher fuel usage vehicles.
Then why was there a waiting list for the EV1 when it first came out? I think all people are interested in is performance. I.e. will it go as fast as gas?
Then there's the money for whatever new infrastructure is required by alternative energy...
Fry's electronics in Sunnyvale CA has special parking spots for cars that use the EV1's charger plugs. Park your car, charge it up for free while you shop.
GWB is a texan. Texas oil is a huge part of their economy. Texas oil makes cars go vroom, keeps power plants running, and heats people's houses on the east coast.
What would happen if all the major automakers decided tomorrow to start building electrics? GWB's texan constituants would have a cow. They would be trying to pass laws to outlaw them.
When it was clinton/gore presidency, everything was dumped into technology, the GM EV1 is a classic example of the innovations that occured under a goverment that supported research that would cut out our dependance on foriegn (read Iraq) oil. IIRC Clinton even made it a law that all US automakers would have to have an electric vehicle on the market by 2008, and that these cars would have to be built along strict goverment guidelines.
When Bush became president, he wasted no time in modifying the law. Current guidlines are on par with a golf cart with turn signals and mirrors. Fords paltry offering into this market is just that, a golf cart with mirrors and turn signals.
Sorry I turned this comment into a political rant, conspiracy theories aside, the fact that GWB would kill the alternative fueled car laws and go after Iraq oil is all the proof I need.
At first I thought, "Phoneblogs, what a stupid idea because those phone keypads are a bitch to type on!" Then I thought, "What if they're using a speech to text engine?"
After reading through the site and finding out there is no voice to text, I verified my original thought, "Phoneblogs, what a stupid idea"
Maybe I shouldn't crap on it too much though, it's still in it's infancy and *could* be cool, But how many journalist do you know that crank out stories on a 12 key keyboard? Didn't think so.
No it doesn't :)
Gee first comment, and it wont be off or on topic, just an interesting side note...
Anyways there's an interesting side note to the history of the ricochet modem. It's parent company developed and deployed a network over powerline technology for some LA based power company years ago. Too bad they went bankrupt otherwise i'd have a link.
NOOOO!
Dude, i'm not trying to knock your logic, technically your points are good, but unless you ever heard the differences between an emulated atari (atari800win) and a real one you wouldn't know any better.
Let me break it into musical terms. Have you ever played around with rebirth? It's a emulator for the roland 808. Sure it has all the features of an 808, but if you ever got to play with a real 808, you can very easily distinguish the difference in sound.
I'm not a sound expert, but I know that there is a difference between sound coming out of the original machines circuitry and sound coming out of an emulation process. There's just never any chance of emulating the original hardwares sound without building it. Just ask any commodore sid chip junkie.
Commodore 128D stored at your mother's house she's telling you to take home lest she chuck it
That's a very true comment...
Since I've been married, my wife CONSTANTLY tried to throw out my old atari stuff. I had an awesome 800xl setup with happy810 drives, toggle switch to switch between O/S's, the works.
I would try to explain to her, this is what I started out on when I was like 10. Didn't matter, week later I would find it all packed up. I tried explaining that it was a collectors item, didn't matter, if I had it out on display she would haphazzardly pack it all up, sans a few cable that went into the trash. I tried explaining to her you just cannot get that vintage POKEY sound with an emulator. She'd point at my SBLive wavetable card.
We must have gone through the whole my unpacking / her packing things about 10 times before I gave up. Finally I just said fuck it, i'm going to make sure it went to a good home. I packed it all up, and went to the nullsoft offices in San Francisco, since I had read that those cats were once atarians.
They were pretty stoked on what I gave them, I think Brennen said he was going to use the drives to dig up some old code he did back in the day just so he could see how much it had changed. Justin made a crack about how he missed the simple flow of line numbering in atari basic, and Christophe ran off with a trackball.
Geek guys like this sort of stuff and geek girls don't. So ladies, my question is, what gives?
--toq
Shit i'm sicilian, go ahead and start with the mafia jokes. My family came on the boat back in 1914. Either way doesn't change the fact you're too stupid to recognize satire.
What good is this to my lynx browser?
Kidding aside..
It's just a bunch of jpg's on a non MS site. Just pointing out the obvious, what verification do we have these came from M$?
Please tell me and don't mod down, I think I have a very valid question here.
Uhhm isn't that why my original comment was modded +5 funny? At least have the balls to reply non-ac, you pathetic moron.